Julian Assange tells 46-nation PACE gathering in Europe why Washington must not be allowed trample on others’ independence and sovereignty.
Continue reading Why this Man is The Most Important Political Prisoner AliveCategory Archives: Press Freedom / Whistleblowing
Pavel Durov’s Arrest: A Turning Point for Free Speech and Online Privacy
In a shocking turn of events, Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, was arrested at Paris-Le Bourget Airport on a Saturday in 2024. This incident has sent ripples through the tech world and raised serious concerns about the future of online privacy and free speech.
Continue reading Pavel Durov’s Arrest: A Turning Point for Free Speech and Online PrivacyJulian Assange is Free: Washington Crafted “A Face Saving Deal”
If the news report from Sky News that reached me early this morning is not a hoax, the US government, increasingly regarded worldwide as a criminal organization, could not convince British courts to extradite Julian Assange. Washington was unable or unwilling to provide the British assurances that Assange would not be abused and denied his rights.
Continue reading Julian Assange is Free: Washington Crafted “A Face Saving Deal”The Slow-Motion Execution of Assange
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting the WikiLeaks publisher to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.
Continue reading The Slow-Motion Execution of Assange2024 is the Last Year of Free Speech and Democracy in the Western World
Don’t let the alarmist sound of this column’s title put you off. It is not a “conspiracy theory.” This column is a factual report as you will see if you read on.
Continue reading 2024 is the Last Year of Free Speech and Democracy in the Western WorldThe Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange & the Death of Journalism
Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted, reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime.
Continue reading The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange & the Death of Journalism‘Don’t Know How Long He Will Last’| Assange Lawyer
Jennifer Robinson, an attorney for imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, told an event at the Australian National Press Club in Canberra that the future is “very dark” for Assange. CN was there to cover it.
Continue reading ‘Don’t Know How Long He Will Last’| Assange LawyerStella Assange Slaps The Mustache Off John Bolton’s War Criminal Face
Stella Assange just delivered a beatdown on one of her husband’s persecutors that was so scorched-earth demolishing I feel like I need a cigarette after watching it.
Continue reading Stella Assange Slaps The Mustache Off John Bolton’s War Criminal FaceHacker Convicted Over Largest Data Theft in CIA History
The agency’s former employee says he’s been made a scapegoat for a massive WikiLeaks exposé.
Continue reading Hacker Convicted Over Largest Data Theft in CIA HistoryMexican President Vows ‘to tear down the Statue of Liberty’
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he will pressure the US to drop charges against Julian Assange.
Continue reading Mexican President Vows ‘to tear down the Statue of Liberty’Julian Assange has no prayer against the ‘Empire of Lies’
Julian Assange’s extradition from the UK to the US will result in a show trial aimed at distracting voters.
Continue reading Julian Assange has no prayer against the ‘Empire of Lies’Julian Assange’s Case Exposes Hypocrisy on “World Press Freedom Day”
One of the most repugnant political faults is hypocrisy. Politicians say one thing, then do the opposite. This leaves a bad taste in the mouth, and brings public life into disrepute.
Continue reading Julian Assange’s Case Exposes Hypocrisy on “World Press Freedom Day”UK Was Worried Assange’s Weeding Would Mar Its ‘Media Freedom’ Event
Worried about a backlash over Julian Assange during its lavish 2019 “Media Freedom” event, emails show the Foreign Office monitored activity online, developed ‘lines to take’ and warned ‘we should be ready’.
Continue reading UK Was Worried Assange’s Weeding Would Mar Its ‘Media Freedom’ Event“A Lot of Mistakes”: The Guardian and Julian Assange
Three years on from the explosive Julian Assange/Paul Manafort story, we question whether the Guardian has honored its stated commitment to the truth.
Continue reading “A Lot of Mistakes”: The Guardian and Julian AssangeThe Assange Case is The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time
If the WikiLeaks founder is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material, it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting.
Continue reading The Assange Case is The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our TimeCIA Ready to Snatch or Kill Assange if Russians Try to Help Him Flee
Under Obama, the CIA wanted to define Julian Assange and other journalists as “information brokers” in order to ramp up their spying on them. And during the Trump era, it prepared plans to abduct or kill the WikiLeaks founder.
Continue reading CIA Ready to Snatch or Kill Assange if Russians Try to Help Him FleeA Day in the Death of British Justice
The veteran journalist, John Pilger, has covered Julian Assange’s case from the beginning, and he was in the High Court in London this week to witness the latest shameful episode. Here is his dispatch.
Continue reading A Day in the Death of British JusticeJulian Assange is A Political Prisoner Worn Down By A Rigged Judicial System
The WikiLeaks founder is so put upon that I hardly recognized him at first this week. The unrelenting cruelty that the US and Britain are inflicting on him for exposing their war crimes is shameful.
Continue reading Julian Assange is A Political Prisoner Worn Down By A Rigged Judicial SystemAssange “Discharged” on Grounds of Suicide Risk if Rendered to U.S. Custody
A United Kingdom court has ruled that Wikileaks cofounder Julian Assange must remain in prison, despite an earlier ruling that he could not be extradited to the United States.
Continue reading Assange “Discharged” on Grounds of Suicide Risk if Rendered to U.S. CustodyUK Parliamentarians, the British Press and Julian Assange
The number of figures extolling the merits of Britain’s Westminster system and how it supposedly embodies a glorious model of democracy are too numerous to mention. This is despite exploits by the government of Boris Johnson, marked by the appointment of unelected advisers with enviable, unaccountable powers and a record of assault on Parliament’s scrutineering functions.
Continue reading UK Parliamentarians, the British Press and Julian AssangeEyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange
The prevailing atmosphere has been shocking. I say that without hesitation; I have sat in many courts and seldom known such a corruption of due process; this is due revenge.
Continue reading Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian AssangeThe Cost of Resistance | Chris Hedges
You can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response by ruling elites.
Continue reading The Cost of Resistance | Chris HedgesWho is Behind the Judge Who is Trying Julian Assange?
Emma Arbuthnot is the chief judge who conducted the trial for the extradition of Julian Assange in London to the USA, where a 175 year prison sentence awaits him for “espionage,” that is, for having published evidence of US war crimes, including videos of civilians’ killings in Iraq and Afghanistan, as an investigative journalist. At the trial, assigned to Judge Vanessa Baraitser, every defense request was denied.
Continue reading Who is Behind the Judge Who is Trying Julian Assange?Good Ellsberg, Bad Assange: Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Dismantles False Narrative
Opponents of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange often hold up Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg as an example of someone who was responsible for a good leak. They insist WikiLeaks is not like the Pentagon Papers because supposedly Assange was reckless with sensitive documents.
Continue reading Good Ellsberg, Bad Assange: Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Dismantles False NarrativeAssange Hearing Day 12: US Government’s Insistence of its Right to Prosecute Anybody Around the World
A less dramatic day, but marked by a brazen and persistent display of this US Government’s insistence that it has the right to prosecute any journalist and publication, anywhere in the world, for publication of US classified information. This explicitly underlay the entire line of questioning in the afternoon session.
Continue reading Assange Hearing Day 12: US Government’s Insistence of its Right to Prosecute Anybody Around the WorldAssange’s 8th Day at the Old Bailey: Software Redactions, the Iraq Logs & the Extradition Act
The extradition trial of Julian Assange at the Old Bailey struck similar notes to the previous day’s proceedings: the documentary work and practise of WikiLeaks, the method of redactions, and the legacy of exposing war crimes.
Continue reading Assange’s 8th Day at the Old Bailey: Software Redactions, the Iraq Logs & the Extradition ActThe Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange | John Pilger
Having reported the long, epic ordeal of Julian Assange, John Pilger gave this address outside the Central Criminal Court in London on September 7 as the WikiLeaks editor’s extradition hearing entered its final stage.
Continue reading The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange | John PilgerAssange Extradition Hearing Opens with Scathing Condemnation by Mainstream Media
The extradition trial of Julian Assange began with the prosecution reading out a damning statement from five leading mainstream media organizations that once partnered with Wikileaks.
Continue reading Assange Extradition Hearing Opens with Scathing Condemnation by Mainstream MediaAssange is Dying in UK Category A Prison, While UK Pedophiles Roam Free
Julian Assange did the whole world a big favor by publishing confirmatory evidence of an interlocking system aimed at concentrating power into the hands of the Deep State. Yet, only a few of those who believe in free speech have the time to do something to pressure the UK to release him immediately for the simple fact that he hasn’t offended any laws of any jurisdictions.
Without his efforts, and of those who were working with him, all of our own analyses of how the world truly works, are still “conspiracy theories” from the eyes of the public.
In the meantime, UK’s Pedophile Prince Andrew is still roaming free,
… and so are the lesser known pedophiles in England, who have victimized an estimated 19,000 children in a year, and in that island alone.
Sexual Exploitation “Epidemic” in England As Nearly 19,000 Children Identified as Victims
There’s a new official epidemic in England and it can’t be tackled with increased hand washing or a new vaccine. In the past year, nearly 19,000 children have been sexually groomed, according to official numbers. But some say the real figure is much higher.
Five years ago, 3,300 suspected victims of child sexual exploitation were identified by authorities. That number rose to a shocking 18,700 in 2018-2019.
Grooming was not officially recorded as an assessment factor during referral to social care until 2013.
Sarah Champion, the Labour MP for Rotherham, told the Independent that the grooming of children “remains one of the largest forms of child abuse in the country.”
“Too many times, government has said it will ‘learn lessons’, yet 19,000 children are still at risk of sexual exploitation.
The government has singularly failed to tackle this issue head on. Its approach has been piecemeal and underfunded.”
According to the Independent, the Home Office has begun an analysis of data regarding the cases and will use the results to inform new policy and prevention strategies, but the Queen’s Speech did not mention anything about a public review.
The Independent also reports that investigations into grooming gangs are ongoing throughout the country. In fact, abusers in Huddersfield have already been jailed.
Sammy Woodhouse, a victim from Rotherham, told the Independent:
“You hear this bullshit line, ‘lessons have been learned’, but they haven’t learned anything.”
Woodhouse, who isn’t surprised by the newly released numbers, helped expose a sandal in 2012 that involved the abuse of an estimated 1,500 victims.
“I still hear a lot about the authorities aren’t doing things as they should. It’s not very often I hear something good and for all different reasons—if the police won’t act on reports, people feel they’re not being listened to or supported properly, or information not being shared,” Woodhouse explained.
“I’ve said for years that this country’s in epidemic when it comes to abuse and exploitation. Authorities claim it’s under control but it’s not.”
Source: https://themindunleashed.com/2019/12/sexual-exploitation-epidemic-in-england-as-nearly-19000-children-identified-as-victims.htmlHow could they control that when even at the heart of the British Monarchy, pedophilia exists?
Where is justice for all of these? Should we just wait until these pedophiles die without being thrown to the Belmarsh Category A prison, just like what the UK Monarchy is doing to Julian?
Assange is Tortured, Drugged and Dying in Belmarsh
Belmarsh is a Category A prison – the highest level in the UK penal system – intended for “highly dangerous” convicts and those likely to attempt escape, typically befitting murderers and terrorists. While Assange meets none of those criteria and was initially locked up for a minor offense of skipping bail, he was nonetheless thrown in Belmarsh and punished as if he were a violent, hardened criminal. He now awaits proceedings for extradition to the US.
The explanation may be as simple as taking revenge against somebody who dared to speak truth to power, Smith believes, and to make an example for anyone who might follow Assange’s lead in fighting state and corporate secrecy.
“What is clear that what is happening to Julian is much more about vengeance and setting an example to dissuade other people from holding American power to account in this way,” he said.
[Assange] delivered a discussion, a debate about what transparency should look like in the digital age… The debate got quashed it never really happened, instead he’s being victimized… That’s’ why he’s in Belmarsh.
Going forward, Smith said it will be important to continue pressuring the British government to answer a litany of questions about Assange, his treatment in prison and his health, as well as to push for an “independent assessment” of the situation. Confined in one form or another since taking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in 2012 and now denied the ability to defend himself in court, Assange should finally receive a fair hearing.
“This whole thing, really we need to be asking more questions. This needs to be held much more in the open… Julian has had his freedom compromised for nearly a decade now,” Smith said. “It’s completely disgraceful. This is bullying. He deserves better.”
https://www.rt.com/uk/477138-assange-prison-awful-sedated-uk/
It’s not only Julian Assange that’s slowing being taken away from us, but Chelsea Manning, too, who continues to defy Trump government’s wish to drop Assange for possible extradition to the US.
Chelsea Manning is being subjected to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, constituting torture by the US government over her refusal to testify against whistleblower website WikiLeaks, a top United Nations official has said.
UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer accused the government of torturing Manning in a November letter, which was just released on Tuesday. In the letter, Melzer wrote that Manning is suffering “an open-ended, progressively severe measure of coercion” which fulfills “all the constitutive elements of torture.”
Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst, was arrested on May 16 after she refused to testify against WikiLeaks before a grand jury. She is still being detained at the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia and is facing fines of $1,000 a day.
https://www.rt.com/usa/477228-chelsea-manning-torture-melzer/Unlike in most Hollywood movies, the enemy cannot be defeated by just the effort of one man. That’s fantasy.
In fact, that type of storyline is deliberate to make us wait for that “lone savior who will come and redeem us,” when all we need is to realize that we are powerful enough to defeat the Deep State if we can get our acts together, stop patronizing the system they’ve put in place, and be ready to raise the pitchforks when the need arises.
Let this 2020 be a year for persistent worldwide exposure and condemnation of the high crimes committed by the Satanic Empires of the West. This is the very least that we can do for these idealist whistleblowers, who have sacrificed so much for humanity, while most of the world are taking selfies – the very object on which NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is on exile, after warning us how our personal data are being collected for future use.
Breaking The Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange
The role of journalism in a democracy is publishing information that holds the powerful to account — the kind of information that empowers the public to become more engaged citizens in their communities so that we can vote in representatives that work in the interest of “we the people.”
Continue reading Breaking The Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian AssangeTrump Pardoning War Criminals, Prosecuting Whistleblowers
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has already made clear his soft spot for war criminals, having brought one – Elliot Abrams – into his administration. Then, earlier this month, Trump pardoned Army First Lieutenant Michael Behenna. Now, reports indicate Trump is just getting started. Continue reading Trump Pardoning War Criminals, Prosecuting Whistleblowers
The Assange Arrest is a Warning from History | John Pilger
That this outrage happened in the heart of London, in the land of Magna Carta, ought to shame and anger all who fear for “democratic” societies, writes John Pilger. Continue reading The Assange Arrest is a Warning from History | John Pilger
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Picked Up by UK Police (SERCO Operatives?)
Ecuadorian Moreno just handed Julian Assange over to the UK police for a possible extradition to the United States, where Collateral Murder whistleblower Bradly “Chelsea” Manning is incarcerated again for refusing to snitch on Wikileaks. Continue reading WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Picked Up by UK Police (SERCO Operatives?)
Attack on WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is an Attack on Us All
Threatening Wikileaks founder Julian Assange with UK US extradition is not just to silence the journalist but also to remind us that the Criminal Cabal is still in power and that we need to thread very carefully. Continue reading Attack on WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is an Attack on Us All
Who Really Deserves 1st Amendment Protection?
If ‘Dirty Dossier’ author Christopher Steele deserves protection under the 1st Amendment but WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange doesn’t, then the concept of a free press is merely a distant memory. Continue reading Who Really Deserves 1st Amendment Protection?
Sweden Withdraws Arrest Warrant for Assange, But…
Swedish prosecutors announced this morning that they were terminating their seven-year-old sex crimes investigation into Julian Assange and withdrawing their August 20, 2010, arrest warrant for him. Continue reading Sweden Withdraws Arrest Warrant for Assange, But…